Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Rheumatology, Guilin Medical University, Guilin, China.
• ² Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guilin Medical University, Guilin, China.
• ³ Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan.
• ⁴ Department of Medical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Tawian.
• ⁵ Department of Industrial Engineering and Enterprise Information, Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan.
• ⁶ School of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan.
• ⁷ Institute of Biomedical Science and Rong Hsing Research Centre for Translational Medicine, Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan.
• ⁸ Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan jccwei@gmail.com.
• ⁹ Department of Allergy, Immunology & Rheumatology, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan.
• ¹⁰ Graduate Institute of Integrated Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan.